ADHD and Infodumping #adhd #shorts

[Zaiberia]

Pro-tip: Become a teacher so you’ll get paid to infodump endlessly on large groups of people. Occasionally they are even there voluntarily!

[bcwest]

Literally infodumping is the only way I know how to talk. I either express what I'm thinking or I don't. And I can't really filter which parts of what I'm thinking I share and which I don't. So I tell people when they get upset at me infodumping that they should imagine their brain just has that much going on ALL THE TIME and that would give them a taste of living in my brain. So they are upset with that flood of thoughts for a few minutes, but I've had that flood of thoughts literally every single moment of my entire 44+ years living on this planet.

[sageordnung]

I think of my infodumping as the adhd equivalent of when your cat brings you a dead mouse. No one wanted that but your cat is proud and wants you to have this thing you definitely don’t want and it makes them happy if you just thank them.

[cbpd]

Everyone needs a friend who, whether or not they're into it, will listen to your infodump with a smile just because they know you are excited about the thing you're sharing.
It's a good friend skill to have and I've found an essential parent skill. The things I've heard and forgotten about Minecraft could fill a dump truck 🤣

[thetrashpanda]

I absolutely love when people infodump on me about something they're passionate about. I infodump too but really connect with people when they do it to me. I feel connected to them when it happens.

[nasperadelane]

i've heard it half-joked among adhd/autistic groups that "infodumping is a love language" and i feel that. one of my favorite things to do is infodump at my dad, he's a GREAT listener with a lot of interests in common with me so it always springboards wandering conversations between us. sometimes i get so excited (i tend to gesture a lot during infodumps too) that i get sweaty. apparently it's hard work! :P

[sandratakagi]

I am finally, at 64 yrs old, realizing that I have ADHD. Your videos have helped me so much reach this realization- like info-dumping, never heard the term before, but now I understand why people don’t wait to listen for me to finish a story I’m telling and just walk away, my feelings then get hurt. I knew it had to be something I was doing but now I understand the situation better. On the other hand I have stood and listened to other people’s stories no matter how long or repetitive becauseI thought it was the polite thing to do. I guess I’m even more annoying than I thought.

[ladymoonlily]

first a video on dyscalculia, then a short about infodumping? feeling very seen today and also kind of SPIED ON haha!

[colonelb]

As an ASD/ADHD programmer - I find other programmers are a good community for this, as well as finding online forums or things where similar folks share interests is a great way to find an outlet for infodumping

[Zangle]

I hate the shame that follows an info dump. Sometimes, I know going into a conversation or meeting, which I am about to do in a few minutes, is best to tell myself not to talk too much or share more than is needed. Guess what happens! My wife hates that I info dump and she gets extremely mad at me. Just can not help it most of the time, and often don't even realize what it is that just happened until after the info dump is finished.

[elijabutterfly]

I love infodumping when im in a place where im alowed to. An i love when someone else infodumps me. I love people being passioned about things and i love to learn new stuff.

[amyreynolds]

My mom and I had to come up with a hand signal for when to stop infodumping. She also has ADHD and her sensory issues are triggered by long walls of sound - but her just cutting me of triggers my own issues with rejection. I'm proud of us being able to work through it together :)

[mansishah]

I always infodump about parrots. And my friends totally zone out. I’m glad that they zone out instead of telling me off. My friends are the best.

[christiancampbell]

When I notice I’ve been talking longer than I meant to, I interrupt myself to ask the listener if they’d like to hear more. Some say yes, some say no.  =‑)

“Try to stop talking before others stop listening.”

[RLF]

I know I'm struggling with the shame, masking, etc. of my ADHD when the smallest message of empathy in your videos can make me emotional. I hope you know that your channel is really important.

[sian]

This is me! I finally feel like I can comment on here as I have today, at the grand old age of 48 received a diagnosis…and your channel is how i discovered ADHD might be why I am the way I am, so thank you so much 🙏

[Jamama]

Didn't know that this was a thing. This short is so helpful. "Expecting ourselves not to do it is kind of unfair."

[fritzginger]

Aha when you stopped and asked “where am I going” I got confused cause I was thinking “nowhere this audio is fast enough to keep me interested” 😆 then realized it was to express how a lot of people react to info dumping by eventually just walking away :(

[carpdog]

I actually don't like shorts but, this is a topic that is very relevant to me and makes me want to write at length about my experiences because I have noticed this tendency in myself and... noticed a real pattern between NT, ADHD, and ADHD+ASD people with, the length of average messages increasing in that order.

[tedpreston]

I recall once, info-dumping to a couple of colleagues in what felt like a stream-of-conciousness that demanded to come out over my own objections. I recall feeling like I was a deer in the headlights, but my own brain was both immobilized by fear of the oncoming headlilghts, and also the driving force behind the headlights. Whatever executive function should have stepped in to control my thoughts and speech was AWOL that day. Years later, I look back on that day with profound embarrassment.

I also look back with profound sadness over my realization that day that Americans' in-your-face patriotism is simply fake. You see, that info-dump I couldn't control amounted to a desperate plea for help from a suicidal US Navy veteran whose dysphoria was being exacerbated by the Veterans' Administration's horrific bureaucracy. The colleagues who heard it were both retired Navy officers, and yet their response was plainly and unapologetically unhelpful: their response was, in exactly these words "That was TMI."

In short: Thank you for your service, but lets stick to celebrating militarism. Let's not talk about the problems our politicians have decided not to fix.

I've never expressed TMI to those colleagues since that day. I'll probably never speak to them again. I doubt I'll ever set foot in a VA medical office again either.